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Hi all,i try to decide for new speakers (FOCAL ISC 165 ? ), and i need to know the max height of them, in order not to disturb the window opening.Any thoughts please ?What is the clearance ? Thanks.
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I had a set of focals in my GTI and they were deep but they didn’t foul the window
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Hi Alex,different focal models have various depths,so i need to know the cars door to window clearance.
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Im well aware of that. Those speakers you mention are wrong for this car. You need two part components and not two way. 165AS for example, which fit well as I had them in mine

The pocket for the speakers is quite deep. You’d probably be best to whip the door card off and measure if you want to be 100% sure
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Thanks,i will rather do that than guess . I am looking at coaxial ones as they are cheaper .
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Coaxial will not sound right in the 6N2 as it has a tweeter in the top of the door. Firing all the sound into the footwell isn’t good audio practice, but it’s up to you

There’s a lot of defent component sets out there for not much more than coaxial
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The truth is that i have a pair of Infinity Kappa tweeters that i will use at the A pillar as supplement super tweeters.
For main speakers i am thinking of Focal ISC165 or Audison prima 165 instead of the Alpine SXE1725 that i currently have.
I also use a RF 10inch with Kenwood KAC 719 mono amp.
What do you say ?
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If you have tweeters just buy woofers that have no tweeters at all
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Hi,again.As far as i have searched the Focals is the least expensive solution (because of the low postage from Germany).
For the same money i can get Audison mid. bass speakers (but its only the half of the speaker,so i consider it as more expensive).
Could you recommend some other mid bass of the same quality please ?
Thanks.
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